>Here's what's hip at this year's festival: beards (see below), flight suits, and a bunch of unexpected cover songs. We know this because today we watched the hairy-faced Eels rock military-inspired flight suits while performing a set that included Tom Waits' "Jesus Gonna Be Here," Peaches' "Rock Show," Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" and Frank Sinatra's "That's Life" — as My Morning Jacket watched in awe from backstage.

The West Coast boys outfits' ranged from strange to stranger: lead singer E (Mark Oliver Everett) dressed as a hairy military bomber, drummer Knuckles wore, as he said backstage, a "racecar driver/rocket pilot/safety inspector kind of thing" and bassist Chet resembled Fidel Castro. But by far the most impressive onstage presence was Krazy Al, who looked like a cross between Mr. Clean and a big-ass mutton-chopped bouncer as he made karate moves and ennacted an incident involving latex gloves, whipped cream and a bit of meditation. We told you they were cool.